§403Ut duo diversis sub eodem vindice caesi §404Vulneribus, Nessus Dexamenique gener: §405Ut pronepos, Saturne, tuus, quem reddere vitam §406Urbe Coronides vidit ab ipse sua: §407Ut Sinis et Sciron et cum Polypemone natus: §408Quique homo parte sui, parte iuvencus erat: §409Quique trabes pressas in humum mittebat in auras, §410Aequoris aspiciens huius et huius aquas: §411Quaeque Ceres laeto vidit pereuntia vultu §412Corpora Thesea Cercyonea manu. §413Haec tibi, quem meritis precibus mea devovet ira, §414Eveniant, aut his non leviora malis: §415Qualis Achaemenides Sicula desertus in Aetna, §416Troica cum vidit vela venire, fuit: §417Qualis erat nec non fortuna binominis Iri, §419Filius et Cereris frustra tibi semper ametur, §420Destituatque tuas usque petitus opes: §421Utque per alternos unda labente recursus §422Subtrahitur presso mollis harena pedi, §423Sic tua nescio qua semper fortuna liquescat, §424Lapsaque per medias effluat usque manus. §425Utque pater solitae varias mutare figuras, §426Plenus inextincta destituare fame. §427Nec dapis humanae tibi sint fastidia. quaque §428Parte potes, Tydeus temporis huius eris. §429Atque aliquid facias, a vespere Solis ad ortus §430Cur externati rursus agantur equi. §431Foeda Lycaoniae repetes convivia mensae, §432Temptabisque cibi fallere fraude Iovem. §433Teque aliquis posito temptet vim numinis opto, §434Tantalides ut sis tu Celeique puer. §435Et tua sic latos spargantur membra per agros, §436Tamquam quae patrias detinuere vias. §437Aere Perilleo veros imitere iuvencos, §438Ad formam tauri conveniente sono. §439Utque ferox Phalaris, lingua prius ense resecta §440More bovis Paphio clausus in aere gemas. §441Dumque redire voles aevi melioris in annos, §442Ut vetus Admeti decipiare socer. §443Aut eques in medii mergare voragine caeni, §444Dummodo sint fati nomina nulla tui. §445Atque utinam pereas, veluti de dentibus orti §446Sidonia iactis Graia per arva manu. §447Et quae Pilthides fecit, pariterque Molinae §448Eveniant capiti vota sinistra tuo: §449Et quibus exiguo est volucris devota libello, §450Corpora proiecta quae sua purgat aqua. §451Vulnera totque feras, quot dicitur ille tulisse, §452Cuius ab inferiis culter abesse solet. §453Attonitusque seces, ut quos Cybeleia mater §454Incitat, ad Phrygios vilia membra modos. §455Deque viro fias nec femina nec vir, ut Attis, §456Et quatias molli tympana rauca manu. §457Inque pecus subito Magnae vertare parentis, §458Victor ut est celeri victaque versa pede. §459Solaque Limone poenam ne senserit illam, §460Et tua dente fero viscera carpat equus. §461Aut ut Cassandreus, domino non mitior illo §462Saucius ingesta contumuleris humo. §463Aut ut Abantiades, aut ut Cygneius heros, §464Clausus in aequoreas praecipiteris aquas. §465Victima vel Phoebo sacras macteris ad aras, §466Quam tulit a saevo Theudotus hoste necem. §467Aut te devoveat certis Abdera diebus, §468Saxaque devotum grandine plura petant. §469Aut Iovis infesti telo feriare trisulco, §470Ut satus Hipponoo, Dexionesque pater, §471Ut soror Autonoes, ut cui matertera Maia, §472Ut temere optatos qui male rexit equos; §473Ut ferus Aeolides, ut sanguine sexus eodem, §474Quo genita est liquidis quae caret Arctos aquis, §475— Ut Macelo rapidis icta est cum coniuge flammis, §476Sic, precor, aetherii vindicis igne cadas. §477Praedaque sis illis, quibus est Latonia Delos §478Ante diem rapto non adeunda Thaso: §479Quique verecundae speculantem labra Dianae, §480Quique Crotopiaden diripuere Linum. §481Neve venenato levius feriaris ab angue, §482Quam senis Oeagri Calliopesque nurus: §483Quam puer Hypsipyles, quam qui cava primus acuta
Like the two slain under the same avenger with different wounds, Nessus and the son-in-law of Dexamonus: and like your great-grandson, Saturn, whom the descendant of Coronis saw restore life himself from his own city: and like Sinis and Sciron and the one born with Polypemon: and he who was part man, part young bull: and he who used to send bent pine trees into the air, looking upon the waters of this sea and of that: and like the Cercyonean body which Ceres saw perish with a joyful countenance by the hand of Theseus. May these things, to you whom my wrath devotes with deserved prayers, happen, or evils no lighter than these: such as Achaemenides was when abandoned on Sicilian Etna, when he saw the Trojan sails approach: nor less such as was the fortune of the double-named Irus, and may the son of Ceres be loved by you always in vain, and may your wealth, though sought after, continually desert you: and as, with the receding wave in alternating flows, the soft sand is withdrawn from beneath the pressing foot, so may your fortune always dissolve in some unknown way, and having slipped away, continually flow through the midst of your hands. And like the father of her accustomed to change into various shapes, may you be abandoned, filled with unextinguished hunger. Nor may you have any loathing for human feasts, and in whatever part you can, you shall be the Tydeus of this time. And may you do something, whereby from the setting of the Sun to its rising the terrified horses are driven back again. You shall repeat the foul banquets of the Lycaonian table, and try to deceive Jupiter with the fraud of food. And I wish that someone, with the feast set, would test the power of the divinity, so that you may be the son of Tantalus and the boy of Celeus. And may your limbs be scattered through the broad fields, just like those which delayed their father's pursuit. In the bronze of Perillus may you imitate real young bulls, with a sound fitting the shape of the bull. And like fierce Phalaris, your tongue first cut out with a sword, may you groan, shut up in the Paphian bronze after the manner of an ox. And while you wish to return into the years of a better age, may you be deceived like the old father-in-law of Admetus. Or, as a horseman, may you be submerged in the abyss of the midst of the mud, provided that there are no names of your fate. And would that you might perish, just like those sprung from the teeth thrown by a Sidonian hand through Greek fields. And may the ominous prayers which the descendant of Pyltes made, and likewise those of the sons of Moline, happen to your head: and like those for whom the bird is cursed in a small book, who purge their bodies with cast-out water. And may you bear as many wounds as he is said to have borne, from whose funeral rites the knife is accustomed to be absent. And astonished may you cut your vile limbs to Phrygian measures, like those whom the Cybeleian mother incites. And from a man may you become neither woman nor man, like Attis, and shake the hoarse tambourines with a soft hand. And may you be turned suddenly into the beast of the Great Parent, as the victor and the vanquished were turned by swift feet. And lest Limone alone should have felt that punishment, may a horse tear your entrails with a fierce tooth. Or like the Cassandrean, not milder than that master, may you be buried wounded with piled-up earth. Or like the descendant of Abas, or like the Cygnean hero, may you be cast shut up into the waters of the sea. Or may you be slaughtered as a victim at the sacred altars of Phoebus, a death which Theudotus suffered from a savage enemy. Or may Abdera devote you on certain days, and may stones, more numerous than hail, seek the devoted one. Or may you be struck by the three-forked weapon of hostile Jupiter, like the son of Hipponous, and the father of Dexione, like the sister of Autonoe, like him whose maternal aunt was Maia, like him who rashly managed the desired horses badly; like the fierce son of Aeolus, like him of the same sex and blood as she who was born to be the Bear that lacks the clear waters, — as Macelo was struck with her husband by rapid flames, so, I pray, may you fall by the fire of the heavenly avenger. And may you be a prey to those to whom Latonian Delos is not to be approached before the day, because Thasos was snatched away: and to those who tore apart him who gazed at the lips of chaste Diana, and to those who tore apart Linus, the descendant of Crotopus. Nor may you be struck more lightly by a venomous snake than the daughter-in-law of old Oeagrus and Calliope: than the boy of Hypsipyle, than he who first struck the hollow thing with a sharp instrument: